Ten things to look out for in next week’s Budget
Including: fan charts and Brexit, sofas and mergers.
Iain Dale: We’re told that we must take politics out of the NHS. But why on earth would we want to do that?
Plus: Zac’s chances, Jarvis’s speech, Stuart Ramsay’s great scoop. And: how long can it be before Carswell and Evans re-join the Conservatives?
Lewis Baston: The 1966 election – Labour’s big win, 50 years ago this month
The Tory campaign in 1966 was not a success, but neither was it a complete failure. Heath’s warnings of economic troubles ahead were vindicated as early as July.
Tony Lodge: Rail competition is working. Now passengers need even more – so let’s keep our campaign going.
The rest of the network can learn lessons from the open access experience of the East Coast Main Line.
Garvan Walshe: Voting is not, and can never be, a matter of consumer choice
If people vote for the pork, that’s what we’re all getting, even those of us who preferred beef or vegetables.
Interview: Mark Francois – Cameron’s former Europe spokesman, who now is backing Brexit
The one-time Shadow Minister for Europe on the the Lisbon Treaty, William Hague, immigration – and the time when Cameron rebelled against the party line on the EU.
Tom Hawthorn: What we are doing to fight electoral fraud
We at the Electoral Commission take this crime very seriously. It is thankfully rare, but even one case is too many.
Our Cabinet league table. Cameron’s ratings go negative. Boris’s are the lowest on record. Feelings are running high in the Tory family.
Leave supporters mark Remain Ministers down. Remain supporters mark Leave Ministers down. Gove heads the table on our lowest top score ever.
Charles Tannock: A fair deal for the Commonwealth already exists – in the EU
The mythical post-Brexit ideal of unfettered access to the Single Market most closely resembles deals only open to less developed countries.
Rebecca Coulson: What makes undecided voters decide – and are they really undecided in the first place?
I’m one of 20 per cent who have not made their mind up about how to vote in the EU referendum.
Henry Hill: Cameron attacks Sturgeon’s ‘one party state’
Also: Villiers accused of ducking questions on Brexit’s impact on NI; Welsh Tories want ‘scores on doors’ for hospitals; SNP take cover from poor financial figures; and more.
Boris powers into a double digit lead in our next Party Leader survey
Pro-Leave support piles up for the Mayor, Gove and Fox – leaving Osborne and May with most of the pro-Remain rest.
Nick Timothy: A dishonest, petulant egomaniac who loathes democracy – Juncker is the embodiment of the EU
If this absurd comic-strip Euro-villain didn’t exist, the Daily Mail would have to invent him.
Chris Grayling: Labour must be stopped in their tracks this May
We must fight hard in the Mayoral, Scottish, Welsh, Police and Crime Commissioner and local government elections.
Maria Miller MP and Nicola Dandridge: Let’s pledge to make young women and girls empowered and safe
This International Women’s Day, across the globe women are coming together to Pledge for Parity.